Huge Crane Collapse in NYC KILLING 4.............

**LS2Tuner** · 03-15-2008, 01:31 PM

Crazy shit!! They are saying many people missing still.
Actually it was 19 NOT 15 stories tall. BIG Sum Bitch!

It collapsed on a resteraunt causing many explosions. It was a HUGE crane that toppeled. They are also saying the site had over 9 prior violation.
It was on the east side of Manhatton.

**redls1** · 03-15-2008, 01:45 PM

Looks pretty bad, that thing is hugh.

**LS2Tuner** · 03-15-2008, 01:47 PM

Yeah they are saying over a 1000 people will be homeless tonight and not allowed to re enter there buidings.........

**fluke** · 03-15-2008, 01:55 PM

Wow, that sucks for those people who are left homeless tonight! I remember when I was stationed in Florida in the Navy a crane on base broke like that and some expensive stuff it was lifting off a ship all fell in the basin and ruined. Then later.. I had to go up in the same crane model from the same company and they made the same mistake/safety violation again that led to their other one breaking in two with us in the basket above the ship!

The two of us weren't heavy so it didn't break, but still.. wtf? That company in NYC had 9 violations already.. how many does it take for someone to shut them down and hire someone else?

**LS2Tuner** · 03-15-2008, 02:29 PM

Originally Posted by fluke

Wow, that sucks for those people who are left homeless tonight! I remember when I was stationed in Florida in the Navy a crane on base broke like that and some expensive stuff it was lifting off a ship all fell in the basin and ruined. Then later.. I had to go up in the same crane model from the same company and they made the same mistake/safety violation again that led to their other one breaking in two with us in the basket above the ship!

The two of us weren't heavy so it didn't break, but still.. wtf? That company in NYC had 9 violations already.. how many does it take for someone to shut them down and hire someone else?

Yeah I seen on CNN they were talking to neighbors and they told them the workers had been working at all hours keeping them up at night. And that the building was making lightening speed in progress of the build.
Sounds pretty shady to me.

**LS2Tuner** · 03-15-2008, 04:50 PM

Nice BEEMER.......

**Nitro_Junkie97** · 03-15-2008, 08:23 PM

man....that sucks. apparently its gonna take 9 violations and a toppled crane to shut them down.

**mmciau** · 03-16-2008, 02:38 AM

Originally Posted by Nitro_Junkie97

man....that sucks. apparently its gonna take 9 violations and a toppled crane to shut them down.

That crane tower should be tied off to the building every so many floors. The ties are like massive "W sections (and wrap around the tower and the extensions are bolted into the floor of the ascending building) and I can't see any on that toppled tower.

mike

**LS2Tuner** · 03-16-2008, 11:56 PM

Man there is some scary truths coming out on this accident.

“I warned the Buildings Department on March 4 that it was not sufficiently braced against the building,” said Bruce Silberblatt, a retired contractor and vice president of the Turtle Bay Neighborhood Association.

Retired ironworker Kerry Walker, who with his wife lived in the top-floor apartment of the four-story townhouse and left minutes before the collapse, had complained that the crane appeared dangerously unstable, his stepson said.

“He knows all about cranes and said this one had no braces, everything was too minimal,” John Viscardi said. “He told one friend on the phone that ’if you don’t hear from me, it’s because the crane fell on my house.”’

City officials said the crane was inspected Friday. At day later, it was being lengthened with a new section, a process known as “jumping,” when it fell.

God could imagine if you lived by that sum bitch......... Watching that huge ass crane flex and move everyday???